Blazers All-Star forward LaMarcus Aldridge discusses a successful season, his offseason and which player he's excited to see return next season.

"I think we definitely got better this year," Aldridge said Friday. "I think going to the second round shows us that every person on the team has to work harder to get better next year, even myself. There's always things we can get better at. I've been really good at going home every summer and watching film and seeing things to get better at and I won't do anything different this summer, there's always things I can get better at."

More from Aldridge:

-- "We know how hard it is to win in the second round, even get to the playoffs. I think every guy gave it his all this season to be in the position we were in. Every guy has to look at what they can do better next year. I think we all have to train that much harder this summer."

-- "Every year I've added something to make this team better and make myself better. I have to go home and watch film and just see things that maybe I can do better on film and then I'll go work on it."

-- "I definitely like to see (Thomas Robinson) come back. This was his first year having a veteran big like myself to talk to him, and give him some guidance. Just talking to him I can tell he had never really been guided by a veteran big, so I think he definitely, if you watch film on him, got better from the beginning of the season to the end of the season of learning how to play in a system, learning on how to be on a winning team. He went from dribbling coast-to-coast and turning it over to giving the ball to the guard to crashing the boards and doing extra things for us."